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Confederate  States  of  America,  > 
Treasury  Department,  January  31,  1862.      \ 

Hon.  Howell  Cobb, 

President  of  Congress : 
Sir — I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith  an  estimate 
of  an  additional  appropriation  required  for  the  service  of 
the  Government,  for  the  year  ending  February  18th,  1862.. 
Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

0,  G.  MEMMINGER, 

Secretary  of  the  Treasury,. 


Confederate  States  of  America,  \ 
Treasury  Department, 
Register's  Office,  January  31,  1S62.      ) 

ESTIMATE  of  an  additional  appropriation  required  for  the 
service  of  the  year  ending  February  18,  1862. 


To  pay  to  the  Mobile  and  Great  Northern  Railroad 
Company  the  difference  between  fifteen  and  twen- 
ty-four per  cent,  duty,  on  railroad  iron,  with- 
drawn from  warehouse  at  Pensacola,  Florida,  in 
the  month  of  May,   1861,  per  act  of  May  21st, 

1861, -     $1,11022 

C.  T.  JONES, 

Acting  Register. 


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Confederate  States  of  America, 

To  the  Mobile  and  Great  Northern  R.  R.  Co.,         Dr. 

To  difference  between  15  per  cent,  and  24  percent, 
duty,  paid  to  Joseph  Sierra,  Collector  of  Cus- 
toms for  the  District  of  Pensacola,  Florida,  on 
railroad  iron,  bolts,  etc.,  withdrawn  from  ware- 
house in  the  month  of  May,  1861,  as  shown  by 
First  Auditor's  Report,  on  said  J.  Sierra's  ac- 
count of  Customs  for  that  month,  No.  163,     -  $1,110  22 

Treasury  Department,  J 
First  Auditor's  Office, 

January  31,  1861.      ) 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  statement  is  correct. 

BOLLING  BAKER, 

Auditor.- 


STATEMENT  of  entry  of  railroad  iron,  fishing  plates  and 
bolts,  at  the  Custom-house  at  Pensacola,  for  the  Mobile 
and  Great  Northern  Railroad,  imported  in  the  barque 
Comet,  D.  C.  Rogers,  master,  from  London,  England,  to- 
wit : 


1,947  bars  railroad  iron,     -     -     -     -       1,025,500  lbs. 

2,884  fishing  pieces, 27,034    ¥ 

51  bags  bolts, 10,306    " 


ENTERED    FOR    WAREHOUSE,    DECEMBER    24,    1860. 

Invoice  cost, .£2484-6-4 

charges, 64-7-8 


£2548-14-2 


Dutiable  value,  in  dollars,     -     -     -     -        $12,335  75 
Rate  of  duty  24  per  ct. — amount  of  duties,      2,960  58 

The  rails,  fishing  pieces  and  bolts  were  withdrawn  from 
warehouse  for  consumption,  and  the  duties  on  the  same  paid 
at  the  rate  of  24  per  cent.,  during  the  month  of  May,  1861. 

I,  Joseph  Sierra,  Collector  of  the  District  and  Port  of 
Savannah,  do  hereby  certify  that  the  above  statement  is  cor- 
rect and  true,  as  per  the  books  in  my  office. 

Witness  my  hand  and  seal,  at  the  Custom-house,  at  Pen- 
sacola, this  6th  day  of  January,  1862. 

JOSEPH  SIERRA, 

Collector,. 


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